Although and Fox are but to announce a direct-to-consumer product on par with NBC’s Peacock platform — the place for roughly $8 a month, cord-cutters might watch observe, qualifying and races stay in recent times — each side are slowly piecing collectively streaming options to fill stay and on-demand content material holes left within the wake of the top of IndyCar’s relationship with NBC.
With Fox’s lack of a streaming-specific platform akin to Peacock or CBS’ Paramount+ — which permit these with out a cable or cable-like TV bundle to look at stay information, leisure and sports activities broadcasts for a month-to-month charge — IndyCar has , its personal direct-to-consumer media platform, for home racing followers — a demographic that beforehand had little use to subscribe to the product that largely focused worldwide followers residing in a rustic with out an broadcast rights settlement.
New for this yr, , the place for $19.99 per yr, followers residing within the U.S. can subscribe a rewatch IndyCar and Indy NXT practices, qualifying periods and races with a 24-hour delay. Although the content material is offered free of charge on different platforms, subscribers can even discover stay and replay entry to in-car driver cameras, in addition to replays of each traditional and up to date (which means 2022-24) race replays and different video content material the sequence produces — with the concept IndyCar Stay can turn into probably the most full, centralized catalog of digital IndyCar content material for diehard followers.
Brash, daring and genuine:
Lately with Peacock, subscribers might watch all IndyCar on-track content material stay, with the flexibility to rewatch these periods inside minutes of them ending — albeit for greater than double the present price of IndyCar Stay. NASCAR followers beforehand have been capable of watch full-race replays inside hours of the checkered flag falling on the sequence’ YouTube channel, although entry to race replays in 2025 has modified considerably. Followers can nonetheless discover them free of charge, however , each on NASCAR’s YouTube channel, in addition to it’s new free ad-supported channel on Fox’s streaming platform Tubi.
IndyCar now has extra flexibility with the place and the way rapidly it may possibly submit current-season race replay movies for its U.S.-based followers by way of its new media rights relationship with Fox, with extra readability on the expanded availability on that content material anticipated within the coming weeks.
FOX to launch direct-to-consumer streaming service in 2025
On a quarterly earnings name Tuesday morning, Fox Corp. CEO Lachlan Murdoch advised analysts that , which means that for the 2026 IndyCar season, sequence followers ought to have a one-stop store by way of which it may possibly subscribe and devour all stay on-track IndyCar and Indy NXT content material. Although Fox does presently provide a cellular and streaming app, viewing stay content material there (minus free preview home windows) requires authenticating to a cable or cable-like bundle to look at stay information, sports activities and leisure TV.
Although IndyCar has made its races extra accessible by way of its new take care of Fox — — observe and qualifying content material will run on FS1 and FS2, cable channels solely accessible by way of conventional cable or streaming cable bundles (like Sling or YouTube TV) that vary from $40 to $80 per thirty days or extra. In totality, it means cord-cutters can watch races stay with the acquisition of a digital antenna that sometimes prices $30 or much less (supplied they stay shut sufficient to choose up a Fox-affiliate sign), however watching each second of on-track motion for a given race weekend might be far dearer for followers than it as soon as was in the course of the NBC period.
Although it’s unclear what Fox may look to cost for a direct-to-consumer content material bundle, it appears doubtless the associated fee to look at stay wall-to-wall IndyCar protection in 2026 will drop from the present threshold for Yr 1 of the Fox period.
‘It is terrifying’:
“We see the standard cable bundle as nonetheless probably the most worth for our customers and probably the most worth for our firm, so we’re enormous supporters of the standard cable bundle, and all of us methods might be,” Murdoch mentioned. “However having mentioned that, we do wish to attain customers wherever they’re.
“(We would like) one other distribution outlet for our manufacturers to entry customers out there, wherever they’re, and that’s what we proceed to be centered on — most distribution of our content material, whether or not that be conventional digital streaming, or our personal (direct-to-consumer) providing within the close to future.”
Earlier this yr, plans for a sports-specific streaming three way partnership between Fox, Disney (ESPN) and Warner Bros. Discovery (Turner Sports activities) executives after a months-long authorized battle waged by a number of opponents proved to be an excessive amount of of a headache to warrant urgent ahead with the undertaking. The primary-of-its-kind direct-to-consumer platform, Venu Sports activities, (and their wide-ranging household of properties) and was set to price greater than $40 a month for entry to properly over half the nation’s present main home sports activities broadcast rights.
Venu Sports activities undertaking canned:
How Fox might use little-known streaming platform to host IndyCar content material
Fox will make the most of its free ad-supported streaming platform Tubi — which affords on-demand films and TV reveals with occasional stay TV content material — to air the Tremendous Bowl, . Tubi will provide Fox’s conventional Tremendous Bowl feed, in addition to a Spanish-language model, together with an unique pink carpet present in the course of the pre-game hours.
NASCAR beforehand introduced the debut of the NASCAR channel on Tubi, the place followers can watch full race replays of the earlier weekend’s race, together with traditional races and authentic shoulder programming.
Fox’s provide ‘was too good’:
Although it’s unclear if there’s an urge for food to make the most of the streaming platform for IndyCar content material this yr, the avenue would seemingly be accessible if Fox wished to host the Indy 500 on a platform that targets a youthful demographic, or if the community wanted a touchdown spot for the six hours’ price of every day Indy 500 observe as soon as the Month of Might rolls round.
